Installation report for Acer TravelMate 8100

[wax_weasle]

ford42 Wrote: 
> 1) ATI X700 => Thanks, I will try that.
> 
> 2) I have tried the ipw drivers with no success.  I can build them and
> install them, but when I try using them, I get complaints that a
> Hardware Kill switch is ON.  If I shut off the Wireless switch and try
> again, I get complaints that it fails to turn the power (TX_POWER) on
> for the card.  I also tried the ndiswrapper.  I get closer with that,
> but still can't get it working.
> 
> 3)  The DMA problem is the one that is annoying me the most.  I have
> tried linking in the  scsi emulation to it, generic IDE, etc, no luck. 
> I've booted with Knoppix and Mandrake Move, but no luck there either.  I
> get messages in the logs saying "IDE port busy" during bootup.  I wonder
> if that has something to do with it.  My guess is that the wrong driver
> (ide-generic?) is attaching to the device and preventing its proper
> functioning.  
> 
> I did get sound working in Linux, but for some reason, I can use XMMS
> without problems, the sound plays on startup, but the "CD Player" has
> no sound.  I tried changing the default sound between alsa and OSS in
> the KDE config, but no luck.
> 
> Also, is the harddrive REALLY serial ata?  Or does Linux (2.6 kernel)
> just recognize it that way?
> 


Well it's suppose to be a Ultra ATA Storage Controllers. Now I have
only been able to run it at full speed with the libata stuff (which is
suppose to be for serial ata, the module name is ata_piix.ko ). Using
'hdparm -tT /dev/sda'  I can get about 33-35 MB/sec with the buffered
disk reads. The dvd however gets about 1.6-2 MB /sec which is clearly
not enough for dvd playback. 

I saw from the first post that the lspci command on ubuntu correctly
gave the names of most of the hardware. This is not the case for me
(mostly unknown device) with my own custom build kernel (plain 2.6.11.5
kernel). Anyone got any idea where I could get the source code of the
latest ubuntu kernel?


Vincent


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